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Patents and youWhy check?  To know what happens in your domain/to know your competitors and what they do.  To avoid that one has to immediately stop exploitation activities for reasons of infringement of earlier existing IPRs.  To avoid compensation claims for such infringements.  To avoid to re-invent the wheel.  European industry spends yearly 20 000 000 000 € on re-inventing existing inventions, inventing products that cannot be commercialised anymore or on searching solutions for problems that are already solved. (2007)The obligation to check, the option to patent. Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 12

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Patents in the innovation process MARKET INTRODUCTIONPreparation of production and EXPLOITATION of the patent: detection ofmarket introduction infringements, licensing out PRODUCT PATENT PROTECTION as possibility toSpecifying the prototype protect the invention. PROTOTYPEDevelopment and working SOURCE OF INFORMATION: are thereout of a concept valid patents or can I copy the invention freely? IDEADevelopment and collection of SOURCE OF INSPIRATION: INSPIRATIONideas state-of-the-art searches; can I build further on the existing patents? START Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Onderzoeksgroep IBCN p. 13